PMO Director
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Job Summary
The PMO Director is responsible for establishing leading and evolving the enterprise Project Management Office (PMO) to ensure strategic alignment governance excellence portfolio visibility and successful delivery of complex organisational programmes.
The role provides executive oversight of portfolio governance programme controls operational PMO services innovation in delivery practice digital enablement and cross-organisation collaboration. The PMO Director ensures that change initiatives are delivered predictably efficiently and in alignment with strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Portfolio Leadership
Define and implement the PMO vision strategy and multi-year roadmap.
Ensure portfolio alignment with organisational strategy and investment priorities.
Lead enterprise prioritisation portfolio planning and demand management.
Provide executive insight into portfolio health dependencies capacity and risk exposure.
Act as senior advisor to ExCo and Board on delivery confidence.
2. Governance & Programme Controls
Establish and oversee enterprise governance frameworks and stage-gate processes.
Ensure robust cost schedule risk and performance controls across programmes.
Provide independent assurance and performance challenge.
Maintain consistency of reporting standards metrics and controls across all portfolios.
3. Portfolio Performance & Benefits Realisation
Oversee portfolio financial management and benefits tracking.
Ensure business cases are robust measurable and aligned to value delivery.
Monitor portfolio performance KPIs and corrective action plans.
Drive continuous improvement in delivery predictability and maturity.
4. PMO Operations & Service Delivery
Lead the operational PMO function including planning reporting governance administration tooling and resource management.
Ensure effective demand management and enterprise resource capacity planning.
Implement portfolio management systems and digital reporting solutions.
Standardise processes and ensure scalable PMO services.
5. Programme Excellence & Innovation
Build organisational capability in project and programme delivery.
Champion modern delivery approaches (Agile hybrid digital enablement).
Drive innovation in planning controls reporting and collaboration.
Lead continuous improvement initiatives and maturity uplift programmes.
6. Digital & Technology Enablement
Oversee digital strategy for the PMO including tooling data analytics and automation.
Ensure integration of portfolio systems and digital dashboards.
Leverage data insights to improve decision-making and forecasting.
Sponsor digital transformation initiatives that enhance delivery performance.
7. Leadership & Culture
Provide inspirational leadership to senior direct reports.
Foster a high-performance accountable and collaborative delivery culture.
Develop succession pipelines and capability frameworks.
Model enterprise leadership behaviours and values.
Direct Reports
The PMO Director will directly manage:
Head of Programme Controls
Accountable for enterprise cost control scheduling risk management performance reporting and assurance frameworks.Head of EPR Fleet Collaboration
Leads cross-programme coordination and collaboration across the EPR fleet portfolio ensuring integration knowledge sharing and alignment of delivery practices.Head of PMO Operations
Responsible for PMO service delivery governance administration reporting portfolio systems and resource management processes.Head of Programme Excellence and Innovation
Drives delivery capability development methodology enhancement maturity uplift and innovation across project and programme practices.Digital Director
Leads digital strategy portfolio tools automation analytics and digital transformation initiatives that enable portfolio performance.
Additional Information :
Benefits include:
- Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
- 25 days paid annual leave bank holidays option to buy or sell days
- Professional fees reimbursed
- Flexible working
- Employee referral scheme
We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills talent and our peoples ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Program Management
- PMBOK
- PPM Tools
- Waterfall
- Project Server
- Project Management
- Sharepoint
- Microsoft Project
- Project Management Lifecycle
- SDLC
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